Parents are motivated to avoid isolation exerted on disabled children. The message was conveyed during the closing ceremony of training parents of handicap children in Gakenke district.
Officials from Education, Equality and Empowerment Project (EEEP) reminded parents to treat disabled children equally like others and facilitate them to access education.It followed the probe which remarked 8596 handicaps in Gakenke district.
According to the research 67% of them occupies innate disability.
During the closing ceremony of training parents of crippled children in Gakenke district, Turatsinze Félicien representing EEEP urged parents to take care of disabled children.
“Offered trainings are meant to acquaint parents with increased knowledge of saving disabled children’ life. We ought not to hold them in isolation as they resemble other humans.”He said.
He further noted that it is better to avoid disabled children abandonment to facilitate their social integration which can be a motive to their good performance in class.
Before the training, Uwingeneye Florence, a parent of a disabled would despair and mistreat her child. However; she attests that training attended helped her to shape her perceptions in a way of treating children equally.
She argues that she acquired skills of taking care of her disabled child adding that she is going to warn neighbor parents’ undermining disabled children’ humanity using pejorative names like kiragi (deaf) and karema (crippled).
Following the probe’s outcomes of EEE Project, some of deaf and mute children were sent to study in their school established in Nyabihu district.
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